Corn maze and Soccer ending

Abby dressed up as a cat for the party.

With her soccer trophy.

Coach talking about her and presenting her trophy, Abby scowling cause she didn't want me taking pictures for some reason.

Being silly in the corn maze.

Two military men trying to read the map. LOL

Jacob in the corn maze.

Jacob, Abby and Paul at the beginning of the maze.

Just thought I would share some recent pics...We went to the Corn Maze with Jacob's Boy Scout troop. That was alot of fun. I was sad last week about how fast the kids are growing up, but then when we went to do the maze Friday night and had so much fun, I felt much better. There are things we can do as a family now, that would have been difficult to do when they were younger! Saturday was Abby's last soccer game of the season(they won!) and her team pizza party. Sunday was church and then in the afternoon a new friend was having a party. We had a very nice time. Abby had a blast with the other children there. Anyways here are some pics from the weekend. I didn't have my camera at the party, it was left in my purse, on the counter at home!

Be Blessed!

36 Years

Yesterday was my birthday! It was a pretty normal day, though lots of phone calls :) I told Paul not to spend money on a bday present because of the ring he bought be for our anniversary :) He did good, but he did take the kids shopping and they remembered a cookbook I'd seen at Costco but didn't buy because it wasn't on my list. Jacob even said he was willing to help cook some of the recipes. LOL Anyways I woke up in the morning, made breakfast, showered, then went to the schoolroom to get the kids started on their schoolwork, this little note was what I found. Paul never does little things like that, but I love, love, love them and sometimes will put one in his pocket or his lunch and such. This note is simple, but is the most precious thing I could have received on my birthday! :) I even told him I took a picture and was going to put it on the blog :) Abby had her last soccer practice, so afterwards we went to Red Robin for dinner.

With Jacob doing 7th grade this year, the writing has really stepped up in his school work. This is his least favorite thing to do. But I am so proud of him this week. He had ALOT of writing in most every subject this week, especially his science. He spent 2 hours the other day just working on his science, and I didn't hear one complaint, sigh, or rolling of the eyes. :) He got it done and he did a very good job. His handwriting has improved sooo much, especially when he slows down abit and takes his time. Great job Jacob! He has come soooo far!

Today was a co-op day, so we had an early start. Jacob is really enjoying his civil war class. Abby got her rehearsal schedule for choir, between that and her schedule for the church Christmas play, we are going to by very busy! Good thing we will be on a break from sports!

Well, I've got to get to history now.

Be Blessed!

Visit from Grandparents

Grandma and Papa Fruechte at the end of Abby's soccer game. Sorry about the hand in her face, she's pushing up her eyeglasses. It's the only pic I got, the sun was so bright I couldn't see the screen anyways......! Abby was thrilled that they came to her game. Her team lost, it's their second loss, but they played very well. One of the mom's came up to her afterwards and told her she did an awesome job! It was nice having them visit. Aunt Tanya came with them, I wish I had taken more pics. We plan to go down for the weekend after next, so hopefully I'll get more pictures. The time went by too quickly!

Abby has been cast in the children's dept. Christmas program at church. They are doing a puppet show. She is the pig, which is what she really wanted. She tried out a week ago, and through out the week she would talk about it excitedly. We had many discussions on what would happen if she didn't get the part she wanted. I'm so happy she got what she did want. :) Anyways it has spurred her into the world of puppets and she's making them and making up plays. She found a really neat puppet making book at the library, and is waiting for dad to get home to ask him to help her cut a box to make a puppet theatre. She sure didn't dawdle this morning with her schoolwork! Hmmmm..........

I wanted to say Jacob is doing well too. He's not much for my snapping his picture. He's currently in the world of Nascar race trucks. He's got a circuit set up on the table and is building Lego race trucks at the moment. Thanks to an awesome book from the library! A little while ago, he was racing and timing them and keeping track in a notebook, then modifying the trucks to see if they go faster. I don't have the heart to mention he is learning, he might stop then! LOL

Well not much more is happening around here. Just school, normal day to day activities. This is the last week of soccer! I'm ready to have the time back, but I know Abby enjoys playing. She's made some friends and we hope to keep in touch with them. No one has treated her negatively for not going to the school with them. They've accepted her for her, and it's really nice to see that!

Be Blessed!

A couple more...

Me and my guy today when he got home from work....Those who know me irl, yes I got my haircut..it was supposed to be a trim..........There's a good 5 inches missing, it used to hit the middle of my back.......Anyways, I like this picture :)

Hubby with his Wii. I don't know who is more excited, him or the kids!

Gotta go spend time with my hubby!

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Miscellaneous October

Snow! Last Friday!

I surprised her here. I could hear her in her room, singing with Jeremy Camp. LOL Her door was cracked open a bit, I saw this and grabbed the camera!

Part of Jacob's Civil War Plantation project.

Abby and my nephew, Noah in their footy pj's this past weekend.

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Anniversary gift

On my finger......

In the box.....it's a diamond anniversary band, I no longer have my wedding band(long story) so this will go where that was. :) It's 1 carat total weight. With my other ring makes a total of 10 diamonds on my finger. Abby joked I needed one more ring to make 15 diamonds for 15 years. LOL I don't think so!

What did hubby get? A Wii. Pictures soon on that I'm sure!

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15 years ago today.......

Dusty was our ring bearer..I can't believe he's all grown up now!

Daddy and I . I don't remember if this if before or after....

My hubby and I. Fifteen years ago I married my very best friend! Every day I love him more and I'm thrilled to be able to be his wife. We may have been young and very immature, I'm not even sure we knew really what we were doing! LOL But we have come a long way, and I'd do it all over again the very same way! I love you honey :)

These are scanned so not the best quality on here. And yes it was a very low budget wedding. :)

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What Happened to Fall?

Woke up this morning FREEZING cold! Had to get up and turn the heat on and scrape the van windows when we left for co op class this morning. What happened to Fall? Seems we went from Summer straight to Winter. We are expecting SNOW tonight! Argh! This afternoon the kids and I hunted for a winter coat for me(no luck, unless I want to spend $100), then spent some time putting away all the summer things and pulling out the cold weather things. Both kids have grown ALOT in the past year. Jacob was good on jeans because we had just bought a bunch at the beginning of summer back in Washington, but needs long sleeves and I did pick up new gloves and a hat for him. Still need to find both kids snow boots. Abby just needed some long sleeve shirts and pj's. I've found her three pairs of jeans in the last couple of weeks off the clearance racks, plus she had some from last year that were bought too big and she never wore. So she's pretty good for now in that dept. Paul and I both need some warmer things as well. Now we just need to find the time and money to shop. LOL

I'm up late, was cleaning for our company coming in tomorrow. Paul started a movie while I was doing so, just waiting for it to end, so I can go to sleep!

Hope all had a good day.

Be Blessed!

Just a check in

I know I need to update more frequently, just haven't been doing anything too interesting. Paul has had to Drill the last two weekends in a row. This past Saturday Abby went to a birthday party for one of her soccer teammates. She had a pretty good time, even with the huge thunderstorm that rolled through during the party. After Jacob and I dropped her off we hit a couple of thrift stores and JoAnn Fabric before going home. We scored in books, I think I spent $8 and came away with a whole bag full. I was really excited because two of them were on my "want" list! At the fabric store I found a carrying bag for the sewing machine marked down to $5! Woohoo! Been wanting something like that for awhile now. And it fits perfectly :) Jacob wasn't too bored shopping with me, LOL, it helps that he knew he had video game time when we got home.

Not too much going on. Just the normal day to day things. School is going well, we're in our groove and as long as I stay on top of keeping things organized it goes pretty smoothly. We are.even starting earlier since Abby decided she'd rather shower in the mornings instead of the evenings. Took a bit for me to get used to(I'm not a morning person at all!) but we're all getting more sleep, including Paul who has to get up really early for his 10 hour days. Speaking of , he says he's going to continue with them, I guess they are working well for him. He has a choice of 5 eight hour days or 4 tens. I really enjoy having him home on Fridays too. :) He gets to go along on most of our field trips as well.

Jacob has almost earned his Tenderfoot Rank in Boy Scouts. He still comes home pretty excited each week and looks forward to the next one. Paul says he's really fitting in with the troop. And I love how organized they seem to be. My only pet peeve is selling things, we are in the middle of popcorn sales and he brought home a form for selling Christmas wreaths! Yikes, we're having a hard enough time with the popcorn sales. We'll just do the best we can, I guess. They are both hoping to go on the November campout. So far the campouts have conflicted with other things each month.

Abby has a few more soccer games left in the season. She's been a bit jealous of Jacob's Boy Scouts and for personal reasons we won't do Girl Scouts, so I bit the bullet and started asking around to see if there were any Keepers of The Faith clubs going in the area. I haven't found one, but did find someone with interest in getting one going. So we are talking back and forth about starting one up. She has 5 children, with one of her daughter's very close in age to Abby. So hoping that works out for Abby :)

Well, need to get back to the daily routine. I've got to get dinner put together so Paul can pop it in the oven when he gets home, while we are at soccer practice.

Be Blessed!

Variables and Gliders

Measuring the distance. It broke on the very last throw! LOL

Throwing the glider.

This morning Abby made two gliders. With different sized wings. Then went outside and "flew" them, measured their distances and then averaged those. She learned about variables, measuring, averaging, hypothesis and speculation.

She wanted me to be sure and take pictures, because I've been taking them of Jacob's experiments. :)

Now, it's on to making lunch, paying bills, and helping out Jacob with his diorama of a Civil War era plantation. Then we've got soccer practice. Busy, busy day. But beautiful weather we've been having. Sticking around 87-90 degrees the last few days, but I see rain in the forecast for the weekend. Thankful for no soccer game, as it is a four day weekend for the local school district!

Be Blessed!